Re: Re: ATM Why use glass?]

["Patrick St. Jean" <stjeanp@pat-st-jean.com>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, William Mc Hale wrote:

> Ice is not a liquid, it is very definitely a solid complete with a
> crystal structure (anyone ever look at a snow flake under a microscope?)

It crystallizes in the hexagonal system IIRC.
>
> The reason glaciers flow is that they are not all ice.  The amount of
> pressure in a glacier is so great that parts of it are liquid thus
> allowing the solid parts to flow.

As does salt in mines.  The great pressure causes it to behave like a
very viscous fluid.

Pat

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